So the parade is Saturday in Denver. My kilt is pressed, my green Chucks are filled with dog hair and my liver is years in the soaking. Let's party.

Christy Fantz

Saturday at 10 a.m., the parade rolls out of the Coors Field parking lot at Blake and 27th in Denver, takes a right on 17th, then a right on Wynkoop. People go crazy over this shit. If you're out in Denver on Friday night, you'll probably see campers pitching tents (not that kind) for a glorious spot on the frontline.

Obviously, aside from Chicago and Boston parades, Denver's (in its 51st year) pulls quite the weight in the parade world. Before and after you watch floats 'n' floats (are you on a float, mother chugger?), here are some St. Paddy activities going on around town.

Crawl in style

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Maloney's Tavern, 1432 Market St., Denver (303 825-1990), will be hosting a weekend-long drunkfest with, Green Kegs & Hammered St. Paddy's Day Bar Crawl. A map with all the bars involved will be provided. There will be T-shirts, mugs and and clovers, and each participating bar will have drink specials for participants.

The crawl starts tonight at 5 p.m. at Maloney's and will hop around LoDo for all the food-dyed beer you can handle.

Anyway, today the bar will have free tunes by British indie band Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls, songwriter ZZ Ward and Denver's Nuns of Brixton (they dress up as nuns and play Clash songs). I've never been, but if you want to go, you've apparently gotta get in line at 3 a.m. Which is why I've never been. I like hugging my body pillow with a bottle of whiskey at 3 a.m.

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